Quote

You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.

Oscar Wilde

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
Author
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Dublin city
Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Might
Everything
Nothing

More quotes by Oscar Wilde

Image
Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .
Oscar Wilde
Image
He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?
Oscar Wilde
Image
The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.
Oscar Wilde
Image
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.
Oscar Wilde
Image
It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.
Oscar Wilde
Image
When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck men risk theirs.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.
Oscar Wilde
Image
To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.
Oscar Wilde
Image
To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde
Image
When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.
Oscar Wilde
Image
It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .
Oscar Wilde
Image
Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share.
Oscar Wilde
Image
A burnt child loves the fire.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.
Oscar Wilde